Quotes

The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world.

At the end of the day, I’m an entertainer who works with entertainers, and there is an obligation to be emotionally correct. My obligation above all is to try and hit what something feels like right on the head.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.

It’s a privilege to have a front row seat to history. But it is sometimes anxiety-provoking.

I am one of many people who support the [LGBTQ and other marginalized] communities. And we’re not going down without a fight. We will stick together. It’s going to be hard, but I’m up for it. We’re up for it. And I just want everyone to know how deeply they’re loved and not invisible.

If there’s one thing that people take away from this, it’s that there is nothing that you can’t do, and you cannot allow others to define success for your life.

My parents are boat refugees from Vietnam. We came on boats, and now we’re on spaceships.

Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.

People couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself…they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.

Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court. Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.

We worked as a team and I think that today is a pretty historical day for the entire conference in showing that the body has decided that parents deserve a voice in Washington and also to the importance of female members having a vote in Washington, D.C.

To hate him is wrong, and maybe my ego got too caught up in, if I stood here maybe, maybe — just maybe — I could break this record of the man who tried to stop the rights upon which I stand. I’m not here, though, because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech. I’m here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful.